Louise Tucker & Charlie Skarbek - Midnight Blue • Platengala International 1982 • TopPop

This was one of those songs that fell through the cracks that were a big issue in the early 1980's, mainly because of the state of radio in New York (at the time a big influencer of whether songs became hits or not) at the time. The biggest problems when this song (which peaked at #46 in the US in August 1983, more than a year after it was originally recorded) came out in the US were:

WABC (770 AM) which was the longtime kingpin of New York radio during the 1960's and '70s had become a talk station on May 10, 1982 (referred to by many as "the day the music died" on WABC).

WNBC (660 AM) had a program director Howard Stern (who was there from 1982-'85, in his 1995 autobiography "Private Parts" named "Kenny" that he called "pig vomit" and in real life) he called "pig virus" all the way to his death a few years ago. That PD was VERY conserative in nature and did not allow a lot of songs for a long while to be played on WNBC while allowing others to be played (and widely for example believed to be the ONLY reason "More Than Just The Two of Us" by a group called Sneaker hit the Top 40 nationally in the US in 1982 as it's believed airplay on WNBC drove it to be a national hit that it otherwise would not have been).

There was no true Top 40 station in New York until WHTZ (Z-100 at 100.3-FM) debuted in late August 1983 and WPLJ-FM (95.5 until 2020) completed a slow flip from Rock to Top 40 around roughly the same time.

If I got to do a continuation of "Mad Men" set in the 1990's, this would be one of the songs I would end an episode with. If it were re-released in 2022 as a single on its 40th anniversary it likely would be a much bigger hit than it was originally.

Jadore

U need not Free Ukraina...

Wow super !

Love this man's voice. Beautiful song.

Wonderful song❤️💕🎶

L'interprétation est magistrale !!!!! 💙💪👍👏👏👏

Midnight Blue on Jan. 30,2022 from Taiwan .

고맙습니다^^live듣고 싶었습니다

Good

92년도 중학교때 테이프로 사서 정말 많이 들었던 음악인데ᆢ

Ukraina may Free Russia?

It's seeing the video that you're happy that you're happy that the hair fashion for the women is dead :x

정확히 40년 전 1982년에 이 분들이 이렇게나 위대한 곡을 만들어 내다니, 대단합니다.
1980년대 중반 나의 어린 시절 아버지가 비싼 스테레오 오디오를 구매 했을적에 음향 샘플 테이프에서 이 노래를 처음 들었습니다

Vraiment pas ma version préférée.

라이브방송을 볼 수 있다니.. 감격스럽네요.

En souvenirs de toi mon premier AMOUR 💘 Ghislaine Argoud !

One of the best albums ever! This was a favorite of mine. Heard it on the radio a couple of times. Bought the album, wore it out.

I heard this song as a kid and loved it. It was so tough to find this song with what little I remembered of the lyrics... had it confused with lyrics like "Please don't let this feeling end" for a while!

years ago when this song came out I was driving my car, before cell phones. Heard this on the radio, looked for the nearest phone booth because the DJ did not say the name of the song when over, he told me the name of it and the rest is History!! Love this tune!! Such Harmonies!! I only found 1 CD of this duo, think it was the only one they made together??

Should have been a bigger hit in the United States. I was a DJ when this song came out and I played it every chance I got.

I first heard this song when I was in middle school, and I thought she was a black singer when I heard her voice. Haha
But as time went by, it became a world where I could search like this, and when I looked for it, the voice that touched me was someone different from my imagination than I imagined. Haha
you still my number No1.

dancing on this at blondies in brantford

Superb performance!!!

Memory Lane ❤

Who create the lyrics?

This song is heavenly, it takes 'one' to a higher Realm! ❤

Why is Louise Tucker so difficult to be googled?

One of Beethoven's masterpieces.
Nice version!
Amazing voices and arrangement!

Linda música de Marumbi-pr Brasil 🇧🇷 🇧🇷 🇧🇷

Midnight Blue on Oct.10,2023 from Taiwan.

Musica secular! Fantástica, linda interpretação, composição! É uma viagem a outra dimensão! Os cantores eram lindos! ❤❤❤

This always reminds me of a dear friend who died in the HIV/AIDS epidemic 😢

uhhhh after sooo many years I hear that song again. We used to play it at the ski-school-camp! and we danced "slow" with our flame......what wonderful memories...first love :)

I personally think, this song would be a great hit for Jennifer Rush.. Great song though.. ❤❤

Why these 2 only had few songs & with such Great talent, Always Loved this song,,

Absolutely gorgeous matching of voice collaboration beautiful harmony❤❤❤ love it.

Soothing and nice voice&singing.

위대한곡 아름다운운곡 어떤곳에서 다 어울리는 최고의곡 미드나잇블루

This song reminds me of my childhood and of the sweet 80s

Revisiting : To this day, this classic piece still gets the best of me. When she sings "the Tears come Flowing Through" I simply lose it

어릴적 들리던 노래인데 그때도 좋다고 생각했어요, 나이가 들어서 찿아보네요

I came here only to say that Koji Kondo inspired in this to make Kakarico Village song

It's nice to see and hear this beautiful song performed live.

Uma balada que a memória não apaga ,uma dupla que funciona na perfeição ,saudações de Portugal !!

WAUW ...Beautiful ! Thank you Louise & Charlie Skarbek !Greatings from Brussels !

I think these were live vocals over a recorded instrumental track, with the drummer doing kabuki theater.

Love this song I was 17 years back then Time gos fast 😥